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Perfidy
Perfidy meaning
A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust. | An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack. | A state or act of deceit.
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Example sentences (13)
Tottle’s book was of special interest because it came after Robert Conquest — a serial contriver of Communist perfidy — published his widely influential book on the 1930s famine — The Harvest of Sorrow.
One is using a trusted source for people trapped in the conflict is a violation of international humanitarian and customary law, which prohibits the crime of perfidy,” the PRCS stated.
Society is fencing opportunities from honest people and acquiescing to perfidy.
We always think that if we lie about Eswatini, this act of perfidy will assist in influencing global action against the authorities of the country, and we missing the point.
It was the ultimate perfidy that exposed his own duplicity: In self-righteously, judgmentally, condemning Dr. King for his personal behaviors, he rationalized the need for King to be murdered.
While there is a raft of motivations for such historic perfidy — with several GOP senators politically benefiting from some of the same corrupting influences — one under-examined, non-Russian reason is personal greed.
Because he sees himself as the savior of Israel, without whom it will fall to the plotting of Arabs and the perfidy of anti-Zionists around the world.
What is not acceptable is to treat your students with malice, and perfidy, and cruelty.
By Edward Said and many others, however, its value as an early exposure of British perfidy has long since been recognized.
Finally, at the end of the day, Senator Cruz and then Senators Cornyn and Grassley confronted her about her perfidy.
He possesses all the necessary requisites of perfidy, selfishness, depravity, want of principle, etc., which would qualify him for the change.
Hitler even mustered the patience to listen to Antonescu's lengthy disquisitions on the glorious history of Romania and the perfidy of the Hungarians-a curious reversal for a man who was more accustomed to regaling visitors with tirades of his own".
Livy speaks of his great qualities, but he adds that his vices were equally great, among which he singles out his more than Punic perfidy and an inhuman cruelty.